The new Blue robot is specifically designed for the latter, and it should be much more affordable than other AI machines. Blue is being developed at the University of California-Berkeley, by a team ...

The idea of having your own assistive robot in the home has been around for at least half a century, promising to usher us into a Jetsons-like future in which we can assign all manner of everyday ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — There’s a classroom at one metro high school with a high-tech visitor. A student battling cancer is using a robot to help her take in classes in real time, kind of like using ...

In a tiny lab at UC Berkeley, next to the whirring 3D printers on the wall, in front of an old Persian-rug-patterned couch, stands Blue the robot. It’s a pair of bulky humanoid arms—only with pincers ...

Researchers have created a new low-cost, human friendly robot named Blue, designed to use recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning to master intricate human tasks, ...